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View of the Sea of Galilee from space. On 15 May 1948, Syria invaded the newborn state of Israel, [29] capturing territory along the Sea of Galilee. [30] Under the 1949 armistice agreement between Israel and Syria, Syria occupied the northeast shoreline of the Sea of Galilee. The agreement stated that the armistice line was "not to be ...
Map of the battle site on the evening of 14 May 1948. According to plan, the Syrians attacked from the southern Golan Heights, just south of the Sea of Galilee through al-Hama and the Yarmouk River, hitting a densely populated Jewish area of settlement.
Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the 1949 Armistice Agreements created three demilitarized zones on the Israel-Syria border. The southernmost, and also the largest, stretched from the south-eastern part of the Sea of Galilee eastwards to the Yarmuk River where the borders of Israel, Jordan and Syria converge. The issue of water sharing ...
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, ... the whole Lower Galilee from Haifa Bay to the Sea of Galilee was captured by Israel. ...
The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end ... strikes and further violent reprisals in towns from the Sea of Galilee to the ...
Operation Hiram was a military operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. [6] [7] It was led by General Moshe Carmel, and aimed at capturing the Upper Galilee region from the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) forces led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji and a Syrian battalion. [8]
By the time the second truce took effect at 19:00 18 July, Israel had taken the lower Galilee from Haifa Bay to the Sea of Galilee. With smuggled Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress planes acquired in violation of the international arms embargo, Israel bombed a residential neighborhood in Cairo on July 15.
Soualem captures Abbass mourning the loss of her mother, remembering performing in Jerusalem's Palestinian National Theatre, and peering across the Sea of Galilee trying to digest the enormity of ...